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Patented Dec. 18, 1945 CONDUCTOR CONNECTION FOR ELECTRI- CAL MACHINES Gordon R. Anderson, Beloit, Wis., assignor to Fairbanks, Morse & 00., Chicago, Ill., a corporation of Illinois Original application June 29, 1942, Serial No.

448,933. Divided and this application August 14, 1943, Serial No. 498,647

3 Claims.

This invention relates generally to improvements in electrical machines, and has particular reference to improved means incorporated in an electrical machine frame structure, aifording selective facilities for effecting conductor connection to electrical apparatus, such as a stator winding or the like, within the frame structure. The present subject matter is a division of my application for Ventilation of electrical machines, filed June 29, 1942, and bearing Serial No. 448,933, now Patent No. 2,357,923, issued Sept. 12,1944.

The principal object of the invention resides in the provision in a frame structure o housing for an electrical machine, such as a motor or the like, of an improved arrangement for effecting electrical connection to the machine through a conduit box advantageously located at one side of the housing and intermediate the housing ends, or through a frame opening adjacent said box and near the under side of the housing.

Further objects and advantages will appear readily from the following description of a preferred embodiment of the invention as exemplified in the accompanying drawing, wherein:

Fig. 1 is a longitudinal side elevation partly in section, of a dynamo electric machine embodying the features of the present invention, the view illustrating a conduit box thereon having a portion thereof broken away to illustrate a preferred manner of box connection to the machine housi Fig. 2 is an end elevation of the machine frame or housing, with the conduit box and a portion of the housing shown in section, and

Fig. 3 is a somewhat reduced, fragmentary perspective view of the machine, illustrating features of the present improvements.

Referring now to the drawing by appropriate characters of reference, the numeral 5 designates generally a dynamoelectric machine embodying the improvements of the present invention. For the purposes of the present exemplary disclosure, the machine herein illustrated may be an induction motor having a wound stator indicated generally at 6, and a squirrel-cage rotor 'l suitably secured upon a rotor shaft 8. The stator 6 may be of annular form and is comprised by preference, of iron laminations slotted to receive the stator windings 9. Supporting the machine stator B is an annular frame l2, while the rotor 1 may be operatively supported through shaft 8 in the usual manner, as by suitable shaft bearings (not shown) in frame closures or endbells and 2|, the latter being suitably secured in assembly to the frame I2 as by bolts 25. To facilitate mounting of the machine, the frame l2 may be formed as shown, to have lateral projections B6 on opposite sides thereof, each of which terminates in a projecting foot portion 61.

According to the present improvements, provision is made for facilitating electrical connection selectively through the motor frame, to the stator winding 9. As shown by the several figures of the drawing, the motor frame I2 is formed to have at one side thereof and between the frame projections 66, a frame boss 68 of hollow form (Fig. 2), defining a forward planar wall portion 68a which is substantially parallel to the vertical axial plane of the machine, and a lower planar wall portion 68b extending inwardly from wall portion 68a and substantially parallel with the horizontal axial plane of the machine. The wall 68a of boss 68 is provided with a generally circular opening 69 therein to provide for the passage of conductor leads (not shown) to the frame interior, as for connection to the stator windings 9. Removably attached to the boss 68, as by suitable screws 10, is a conduit box 12, the box having an opening I3 in its rear wall 14 registering with the boss opening 69, and a further opening I5 in its front wall 16. A closure member or cover 11 for the box opening 15, is removably secured over the opening by a screw 18 about which the cover may be pivoted to give access to the box interior, and by a hook-like recess 19 formed in one corner of the cover, for connection with a screw o stud 80. An alternative connection to the motor is provided for by an opening 82 formed in the lower wall portion 68b of frame boss 68, this wall and its opening being located inwardly of the projections 66 and near the under side of the frame [2 as appears in Fig. 2. The motor leads (not shown) may be directly introduced through opening 82, or one end of a conduit (not shown) containing such leads, may be passed through this opening, as desired. Also, the opening 82 may be tapped (not shown) for threaded connection of a conduit thereto. When the opening 82 is employed in effecting electrical connection to the motor, the conduit box 12 may be and preferably is removed. In such instance the opening 69 may be closed by the box cover 71. The advantages are believed apparent in respect to the present provisions for selective conductor connection to the motor, the opening 82 in particular being wholly within the confines of the frame structure, and hence out of the way.

Although the invention is here illustrated and dinally spaced mounting projections on opposite;

sides thereof, the frame member being formed further, to provide a laterally projecting boss arranged substantially between the mounting projections on one side of the member, said'bos's providing angularly related Wall portions and having an opening in eachof said wall portionsthereof, affording selective access to thefrarne interior for conductor connection to the stator winding therein, and a conduit box removably secured to said boss over one of said openings, said conduit box including'a cover removablyattached thereto, adapted for direct securement to said boss upon removal of the conduit box, to close said one opening.

2. In a dynamoelectric machine includingv a stator having a winding thereon, a frame member for supporting and enclosing said stator and winding, said frame member being formed to provide on opposite sides thereof, longitudinally spaced mounting projections, and-formed-fu'rther' to provide a laterally projecting boss; substam tially centrally'between the mountingprojections on one side oftheframe, said boss having at least two openings therethrough, affording selective access to the frame interior for conductor connection to the stator winding therein, said openings being arranged such that the axis of one thereof is substantially normal to the axis of the othen-andfurthen sucli that one of the openings is disposed inwardly of tlie lateral confines of the frame and its mounting projections, and a conduit box removably secured to said boss over one-of said openings;

3. In a dynamo electric machine including a stator having a winding thereon, a frame memher for supporting and enclosing said stator and winding, said frame member being formed to provide on opposite sides thereof, longitudinally spaced mountingprojections, and formed further to provide a laterally projecting boss substantially'centrally between the mounting projections on one side of the frame, said boss defining vertically and horizontally directed walls substantially paralleling respectively, the vertical and horizontal axial planes of the frame member, the horizontal wall extending inwardly to the lower'side' portion of the frame, each of said walls having an opening therethrough, affording selective access to the stator winding therein, the opening in said horizontal Wall being located therein soas to be disposed inwardly of the lateral confines of the frame'and its mounting pro jectio'ns, and a conduit box remo'vably secured to said-boss over the opening in said vertical wall.

GORDON R. ANDERSON. 

